Margery Ashby
Toronto Daily Star, April 4 1929
Margery Corbett Ashby (1882-1981) was involved in the women's suffrage movement starting in 1901, when she and her sister Cicely founded the Younger Suffragists. While I could find no reference to the World League for Women's Suffrage, Ms. Ashby became secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1907 and was President of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance from 1923 to 1946.
She also was a candidate for Parliament for the Liberal Party, running for office in 1918, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1935, 1937, and 1944 (the last as an Independent Liberal candidate). She never won, but she polled respectably enough that her campaigns served as a platform for the suffragist cause.
Created August 27, 2025.